The show brings a new perspective to the classic Turkish book, Calikusu.
Feride, the main character has been orphaned as a young girl, and is
forced to attend a boarding school while also visiting her aunt during
breaks, and holidays. During this time she has fallen in love with her
charming older cousin Kamran. Their love soon grows to be mutual and
this shows marks their journey as their love grows and intensifies. The
highly acclaimed television show will take you through this journey of
love, bravery, and humor.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 95 minutes

Premier: 2013-09-24

Çalıkuşu - Şükrü Özyıldız - Netflix

Şükrü Özyıldız (born February 18, 1988) is a Turkish actor. He is best
known for his leading roles in the Star TV and later Fox TV series Benim
Hala Umudum Var and Kanal D series Şeref Meselesi.

Çalıkuşu - Life - Netflix

His mother is of Greek descent while his father is Turkish from Black
Sea region of Turkey. After earning the Department of Ship Mechanics
Engineering at Istanbul Technical University and studying in Istanbul
for one year, he started studying again at Ege University and then went
to Portugal with Erasmus program. Özyıldız has been interested in
martial sports since he was a youngster and has participated in cage
fights in Portugal. Later, Şükrü Özyıldız explained that he left the
cage fights; He said he was pressing the hyperactivity on the sets.
After participating in a workshop on acting, he decided that he liked
the acting very much and decided to study acting at Müjdat Gezen Art
Center.

2 blood brothers who aren't meeting about 2-3 years. They were too close
until one of them fired from work because of swearing a guy who they
caught. Since then he (who fired from work) started to get vengeance by
cheating their wealth, so he's being a ringleader. His blood brother
starts to catch him after learning these events.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 90 minutes

Premier: 2008-11-07

Adanalı - Ekin Türkmen - Netflix

Ekin Türkmen (born 22 August 1984) is a Turkish actress. She is best
known for starring in TV serials including Bitter Life, Menekşe ile
Halil and Adanalı.

Eve Düşen Yıldırım - Çağatay Ulusoy - Netflix

Çağatay Ulusoy (born 23 September 1990) is a Turkish model and actor who
started his acting career in TV series Adını Feriha Koydum (2011–2012).
Since then he has had further lead roles in Medcezir (2013–2015), a
remake of the television series The OC and most recently in the TV
series Içerde.

Eve Düşen Yıldırım - Life and career - Netflix

Ulusoy was born in Istanbul, Turkey. His maternal family is of Bosnian
descent and his paternal family is of Turkish descent who immigrated
from Bulgaria. He has a younger brother named Atalay. After graduating
from high school, Ulusoy firstly started studying at the Istanbul
University's Department of Garden Design and Landscaping. As a student,
he then started to work as a model at the age of 19. In 2010, he won a
model contest in Turkey and was named Best Model of Turkey. On the same
night he was named Best Model of the Year, he received his first acting
job offer for the TV series Adini Feriha Koydum. In 2011 he shot his
first movie Anadolu Kartallari, in a supporting role. Earlier the same
year, Ulusoy starred in the TV series Adını Feriha Koydum as the lead
playing Emir Sarrafoğlu. While the first two seasons of the series were
successful, the third season that aired under another title Emir'in Yolu
(Emir's way), was less successful and due to low ratings was cancelled
after a few episodes in 2012. On January 25, 2013, 30 Turkish actors,
including Çağatay Ulusoy, Gizem Karaca, Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Engin Altan
Düzyatan taken into custody for drugs probe by Istanbul's narcotics
police. Ulusoy confessed that he used drug and his case continues. In
2012, Ulusoy also shot a short film, Paranoia. From 2013 until 2015,
Ulusoy played the lead role Yaman Koper in Medcezir (Tide in English),
loosely based on The O.C., co-starring actress Serenay Sarıkaya. From
2016 until 2017, Ulusoy played the lead part in the TV series İçerde
(Inside, partially based on the movie The Departed) In 2016, Ulusoy
bought a house in Santa Monica, California.

Two young and desperate people from different backgrounds come across to
each other at the same flight to Istanbul. They make a marriage
agreement on the flight. Fatih (Bugra Gülsoy) wants Zeynep (Özge
Özpirinçci) to pretend his wife because his family wants him to get
married to Irem (Didem Soydan). He wants his freedom back while
pretending that he is married. Zeynep, on the other hand, needs some
time to explain everything to her family. She accepts Fatih's offer so
that she can explain her baby to her family at the most appropriate
time.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 95 minutes

Premier: 2015-02-10

Aşk Yeniden - Kerem Çatay - Netflix

Kerem Catay (34) is the CEO of Ay Yapım, producer of all series,
Turkey’s leading production company for drama series, formats, weekly
and daily shows. Born in Ankara, Kerem Çatay graduated from Bilkent
University Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences. He
completed his education in the Film and Television program at UCLA. He
is known as the producer of countless phenomenally successful TV series,
from 2008’s ground-breaking “Aşk-ı Memnu” (Forbidden Love) to 2009’s
“Ezel”. Çatay’s productions are renowned for their well-crafted,
captivating stories based on both original screenplays and literary
adaptations. Nearly all of Catay’s productions have been sold at least
41 countries, MENA to Sweden, Eastern & Southern Asia, Eastern Europe,
the Balkans plus some of the African TV channels. They are also made
available via Internet Worldwide.

A genetic professor (Murat Güney) wants to save his sister from a
long-time coma by using a medicine he has just discovered. But this
discovery changes his life in an unexpected way.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2016-03-27

46 Yok Olan.. - Tuncay Güney - Netflix

Tuncay Güney (pronounced [ˈtundʒaj ˈɟyneː]; born 25 August 1972 in
Kargı), code name “Ipek” (silk), is a Turkish citizen of Jewish origin
who claims to have infiltrated the Turkish Gendarmerie's intelligence
organization JITEM, Ergenekon, the Workers' Party, and the Gülen
movement before being outed. He is subordinate to Mehmet Eymür, who was
discharged from the National Intelligence Organization (Turkish: Millî
İstihbarat Teşkilâtı, MİT). The information Güney has gleaned on these
organizations make him a key figure in the ongoing Ergenekon
investigation. His statements form the backbone of the 2455-page
Ergenekon indictment, which mentions him 492 times and labels him a
suspect at large (Turkish: firari şüpheli).

46 Yok Olan.. - United States and Canada (1999–present) - Netflix

Güney is alleged to have a string of aliases: Tuncay Güney, Tuncay İpek,
Tuncay Güney İpek, Tuncay Bubey, Tolga İpek, Daniel Güney, Daniel Levi,
Kemal Kosbağ, Alparslan Evrenos, and Alpaslan Evrenos. An individual
named Alpaslan Evrenosoğlu was also alleged to be an alias for Güney,
but the police said such a person actually existed.

When Sarp's brother Umut disappears and is presumed dead, his mother
hangs onto his memory for dear life. Sarp blames himself for having lost
him and is still haunted by the loss. Just as Sarp is to graduate from
the police academy he is assigned to infiltrate the mafia syndicate run
by the mob boss, Celal. He believes by succeeding with his mission he
will finally find peace in his mind and soul. When getting further
involved in Celal's world, Sarp also finds himself developing deep
feelings for the mob boss's protégé, Melek. She was taken off the
streets begging as a small child by Celal, alongside a little boy, Mert.
Sarp eventually discovers that Mert is his long lost brother who in turn
is embarking on his own mission for Celal. Suddenly the siblings are
reunited but not as two brothers but two opponents on different side of
the law. Will the brotherly love succeed to overcome all differences and
heal wounded hearts?

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 140 minutes

Premier: 2016-09-19

Içerde - Aras Bulut İynemli - Netflix

Aras Bulut İynemli (born August 25, 1990) is a Turkish actor. He has an
older brother, actor Orçun İynemli and older sister, television host and
singer Yeşim İynemli. Other relatives who are actors are Miray Daner
(cousin), Cengiz Daner(uncle), and İlhan Daner (grandfather's brother).
He is best known for his performances in the television series Öyle Bir
Geçer Zaman Ki (English: As Time Goes by), Muhteşem Yüzyıl (English:
Magnificent Century), Maral,İçerde and Çukur (English: The Pit) .

Içerde - Career - Netflix

After playing a role in 2-3 commercials, in 2010 Aras performed in the
drama series As Time Goes By. This drama gained international success
and Aras received a reward as well. Before this he had also worked in
the drama Back Street but He paused it after the first part as he had to
complete his education of aircraft engineer. He won ÖSS (SAT exam in
Turkey) as one of first 100 students. He is still studying in Istanbul
Technical University. In 2011, while he was 20 he received the Antalya
Award. In 2013 he reappeared in Azerbaijan-Turkey movie “Mahmut and
Meryem” based novel of Elçin Efendiyev. He played disabled in “Tamam
Mıyız?” and as Şehzade/Prince Bayezid in Muhteşem Yüzyıl on the same
year. In 2015 Aras Bulut was selected to play the main male character in
the series Maral En Güzel Hikayem (English: Maral My Most Beautiful
Story) with actress Hazal Kaya , In 2016-17 he played the role of Umut
Yılmaz / Mert Karadağ in Insider (İçerde) in turkey this series have got
the highest views, its first episode received 10 million views in 6
months on YouTube. He also played the role of Yamaç Koçovalı in Pit
(Çukur) with actress Dilan Çiçek Deniz.

"Intikam" is the Turkish version of the ABC TV series "Revenge". Yagmur
Ozden moves to a yali (Bosphorus mansion) at a rich neighborhood on the
shore of the Bosphorus in Istanbul. Her real name is Derin Celik. Her
father, Adil was framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison.
Derin was sent to an orphanage and believed that her father was guilty.
Adil wanted her daughter to learn the truth and kept a diary to be given
to her. Derin learned the truth about her father when she was 18. But it
was too late. He died in jail as an innocent man. Derin comes to her
childhood neighborhood with a different identity to seek revenge against
the people who betrayed her father.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 90 minutes

Premier: 2013-01-03

İntikam - Tatlı İntikam - Netflix

Tatlı İntikam is a Turkish television romantic-comedy series produced by
D Productions. The series is broadcasting on Kanal D. It is written by
Pınar Ordu and İlker Aslan kaleme.

Kardeş Payı is a Turkish TV sitcom produced by NTC Medya. The show is
about two brothers (Ahmet Kural and Murat Cemcir) and a sister (Seda
Bakan). The two brothers have a plumbing company and they are trying to
invent something that would make the world a better place.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 90 minutes

Premier: 2014-02-13

Kardeş Payı - Murat Cemcir - Netflix

Murat Cemcir (born November 30, 1976; Niksar, Tokat) is a Turkish actor
of Georgian descent who appears regularly in Turkish films and on
television primarily in comedies.

Love destroys everything in its path - life of lovers the surrounding
loved ones. In this story, intertwined fates of four young people. Melek
and Bulut fell in love with the first meeting. The only thing holding
back - a woman named Sude, the thirsty to love and be loved. In addition
it is also the guy Ali, who is ready to do anything for love. You will
know how to connect the stories of our characters. Can they find their
way to happiness? The series is based on a Korean TV series "Hopeless
Love".

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 120 minutes

Premier: 2015-12-20

Acı Aşk - Ezgi Asaroğlu - Netflix

Ezgi Asaroğlu (born on June 18, 1987 in Izmir, Turkey) is a Turkish film
and television actress. She first appeared on cable tv in the TV series
Bir Dilim Ask, which marked her screen debut at age 17. During the
years, she had roles in the top-rated TV series and the popularity of
the series made Ezgi Asaroglu well known to audiences in Turkey. In
2005, she appeared in the short movie What's Love Doing in the
Mountains? which won awards at film festivals around the world. Ezgi's
film career started with her role in the 2008 award winning independent
film, For a Moment, Freedom (aka Ein Augenblick Freiheit), a biting,
tragicomic refugee drama which has won 30 international awards. Since
then, she has taken on starring roles. In 2009, she starred in Kampuste
Ciplak Ayaklar (aka Barefoot on Campus). Her performance received
critical acclaim, and other successful films followed. Aci Ask, En Mutlu
Oldugum Yer, Ask Kirmizi, Cennetten Kovulmak (which earned her “Best
Actress Award” from Dublin Silk Road Film Festival), Sag Salim2. After
comedy series Leyla ile Mecnun and Yagmurdan Kacarken, she continued her
acting career successfully, starred in a drama series O Hayat Benim,
which had a huge success that continued for four seasons, one hundred
thirty-one episodes, and finished just on May 2, 2017.

At a hospital a nurse switches two daughters because their last names
are similar. The rich family get the poor girl and the poor family get
the rich girl. After 15 years, they find out about it.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 120 minutes

Premier: 2014-12-01

Paramparca - Ahu Yağtu - Netflix

Ahu Yagtu is a Turkish actress and model known for her appearance on the
television drama Ninety-Sixty-Ninety (2001) as well as the character
“Candan” in the series Paramparça. Yağtu made her screen debut in 2001,
in 90-60-90's feature Esin, and later starred in Savcinin karisi in
2005. In 2010, she appeared in the television series Ask ve ceza. From
2014 she has appeared in the television drama series Paramparça

When his brother is killed by a member of the Şahvar family Hazar
Azizoğlu has to marry Zilan, the beautiful daughter of the enemy, to put
an end to the blood feud between the Azizoğlu family and the Şahvar
family. Hazar and Zilan, both very different from each other and and
complete strangers to one another, have to enter an arranged marriage
and everything get's even more complicated when love starts to bloom...

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 90 minutes

Premier: 2005-05-07

Aşka Sürgün - Saadet Aksoy - Netflix

Saadet Aksoy (born 29 August 1983) is a Turkish-born actress, who
received critical acclaim with her portrayal of Aska, a red-haired punk
trumpet player in Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto's film Twice
Born, in which she co-starred with Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch.
Christy Lemire described her as “the striking Saadet Aksoy” in her Twice
Born review, and film critic David Rooney stated, “Saadet Aksoy brings a
subdued fieriness to her scenes as a Bosnian woman.” on The Hollywood
Reporter. In his article on Variety, Boyd Van Hoeij wrote, “Turkish
thesp Saadet Aksoy impresses in a supporting role as a spunky Yugoslav
local.” about her performance in Twice Born. Sergio Castellitto
explained his first encounter with Aksoy in an article on Vogue Turkey
with these words: “Saadet, the first time I met you it was through the
internet. I had accidentally 'fallen' on a movie trailer. I actually
don’t remember anything of that trailer, of that movie. Yet I remember
that I saw a woman turning her head abruptly to the camera, her blue
eyes burning everything in that framing, blasting the reverse shot.”
Saadet Aksoy has been in the juries of such film festivals as Cairo
International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival and Istanbul Film
Festival. She became the spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris in Turkey in the
year 2013.

Gunes is a 35 years old woman and a literature teacher whose husband
left her with no reason. So she decides to get married in order to
afford a good future for her three daughters.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 120 minutes

Premier: 2015-06-18

Güneşin Kızları - Hande Erçel - Netflix

Hande Erçel (born 24 November 1993) is a Turkish television actress and
model. Erçel is known for her lead role in Aşk Laftan Anlamaz
(2016–2017) as Hayat Uzun - Sarsılmaz, opposite Burak Deniz as Murat
Sarsılmaz, and as Selin Yılmaz - Mertoğlu in Güneşin Kızları
(2015–2016). Also she played the role of Hazal in Siyah İnci on Star TV.

A continuation series of Osman Sinav's The Wolves of the Valley. This
produce focuses on politics, National Security and Regional Middle East
problems. The Wolves of The Valley: Ambush serie also attracts attention
by two film; The Wolves of the Valley: Iraq and the Wolves of the
Valley: Palestine.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Running

Runtime: 120 minutes

Premier: 2007-04-19

Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu - Show TV - Netflix

Show TV is a nationwide television channel in Turkey owned by Ciner
Media Group (since 2013, acquired from Çukurova Media Group after
Çukurova was forced to sell due to tax debts. The channel was originally
established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi and
were originally launched on March 1, 1991, although it commences its
test transmissions. A year later, the channel moved its headquarters to
Istanbul, Turkey, and were at the same time starting its official
broadcasts. Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more
channels like Show Max and Show Turk to its group. Show TV aired many
world-known series for the first time in Turkey. Among them were
S.W.A.T., The Master, The Rookies, Silk Stalkings, T. J. Hooker, Booker,
Roseanne, The Wonder Years, Superboy, Tequila and Bonetti, Doogie
Howser, M.D., The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Dream On, Generations, The
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Seinfeld, In the Heat of the Night,
Friends, Beverly Hills, 90210, Power Rangers and Premiers Baisers.
Furthermore, it re-aired some television series like Fame, Charlie's
Angels, The Twilight Zone and Dallas, which were very popular during the
monopolistic era of TRT in Turkey.

Kış Güneşi - A-Acayipsin - Netflix

Aacayipsin is the 1994 album of the Turkish pop singer Tarkan Tevetoğlu.
Album was published in Europe, Asia. This was his second album, the
success of which launched him as a superstar onto the Turkish pop scene
with over 3 million copies sold worldwide. The album also sold over 750
thousand copies in Europe, a first-ever feat for a Turkish performer.

Kördügüm - Hümeyra - Netflix

Hümeyra Akbay (Turkish pronunciation: [hymejˈɾaː akˈbaj]) (born 15
October 1947) is a Turkish actress, singer, composer, and lyricist. In
the 1970s she was a noted singer and actress. Her popularity with the
new generation rose in the 2000s with the sitcom Avrupa Yakası and the
feature drama My Father and My Son directed by Çağan Irmak.

Hanım Köylü - Nâzım Hikmet - Netflix

Nâzım Hikmet Ran (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as
Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈnaːzɯm ˈhikmɛt] ( listen)) was a
Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and
memoirist. He was acclaimed for the “lyrical flow of his statements”.
Described as a “romantic communist” and “romantic revolutionary”, he was
repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his
adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into
more than fifty languages.

Hanım Köylü - Style and achievements - Netflix

Despite writing his first poems in syllabic meter, Nazım Hikmet
distinguished himself from the “syllabic poets” in concept. With the
development of his poetic conception, the narrow forms of syllabic verse
became too limiting for his style and he set out to seek new forms for
his poems. He was influenced by the young Soviet poets who advocated
Futurism. On his return to Turkey, he became the charismatic leader of
the Turkish avant-garde, producing streams of innovative poems, plays
and film scripts. Breaking the boundaries of syllabic meter he changed
his form and began writing in free verse, which harmonised with the rich
vocal properties of the Turkish language. He has been compared by
Turkish and non-Turkish men of letters to such figures as Federico
García Lorca, Louis Aragon, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and
Pablo Neruda. Although Ran's work bears a resemblance to these poets and
owes them occasional debts of form and stylistic device, his literary
personality is unique in terms of the synthesis he made of iconoclasm
and lyricism, of ideology and poetic diction. Many of his poems have
been set to music by the Turkish composer Zülfü Livaneli. A part of his
work has been translated into Greek by Yiannis Ritsos, and some of these
translations have been arranged by the Greek composers Manos Loizos and
Thanos Mikroutsikos.

The story is about three close friends growing apart and becoming each
enemies, while unaware that they used to be very close friends when they
used to be orphans. Will they found out their true identities?

Yaman, who lives in one of the Istanbul's suburbs, is arrested and put
in jail along with his brother because his brother stole a car at a gas
station.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 100 minutes

Premier: 2013-09-13

Medcezir - Medcezir - Netflix

Medcezir (English: 'Ebb and tide ') is a Turkish teen drama television
series first aired on Star TV from September 13, 2013 to June 2015. It
is a remake of the American show The O.C.. The series, created by Ece
Yörenç, portrays the fictional lives of a group of teenagers and their
families residing in the affluent seaside neighborhood of Altınkoy in
Istanbul, Turkey. The story mainly revolves around Yaman Koper,
belonging to a poor background who is caught between a disturbed family
life and a roller coaster of hardships in his teens. He falls in love
with a rich girl, Mira and faces many challenges to win her and her
family.

Nazlı is the daughter of a conservative Turkish father Kahraman, who is
a famous baklava maker in Gaziantep. Her grandfather Memik Dede is a
Greco-Turkish War veteran. Niko, whose parents are immigrants from
Istanbul, is the son of a wealthy Greek ship owner Stavro. Nazlı and
Niko meet in Bodrum, fall in love at first sight and decide to marry.
The comedy starts when Niko goes to Gaziantep to ask for her father's
agreement to the marriage. Historical enmity between the two nations
makes it very hard, and both families oppose the marriage.

An innocent pastrycook Melek gets accused of injuring an important
politician's son. Her loving husband Ali wants to help her wife to
escape from prison.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 100 minutes

Premier: 2013-01-01

20 Dakika - Turkish presidential election, 2018 - Netflix

The Turkish presidential election of 2018 took place on 24 June 2018 as
part of the 2018 general election, alongside parliamentary elections on
the same day. Following the approval of constitutional changes in a
referendum held in 2017, the elected President will be both the head of
state and head of government of Turkey, taking over the latter role from
the to-be-abolished office of the Prime Minister. The election was
originally scheduled for November 2019. Despite insistence from the
government that they would not be brought forward, speculation over an
early vote continued since the 2017 referendum. After calls from
Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahçeli for a snap election,
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on 18 April 2018 that it would
take place on 24 June. Incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared
his candidacy for the People's Alliance (Turkish: Cumhur İttifakı) on 27
April 2018. Turkey's main opposition, the Republican People's Party,
nominated Muharrem İnce, a member of the parliament known for his
combative opposition and spirited speeches against Erdoğan. The Peoples'
Democratic Party nominated the imprisoned ex-chairman Selahattin
Demirtaş. Besides these candidates, Meral Akşener, the founder and
leader of İyi Party, Temel Karamollaoğlu, the leader of the Felicity
Party and Doğu Perinçek, the leader of the Patriotic Party, have
announced their candidacies and collected the 100,000 signatures
required for nomination. Campaigning for the election centred mainly on
the faltering Turkish economy and the currency and debt crisis, with
both government and opposition commentators warning of a more serious
economic crisis following the election. The 2018 Gaza border protests,
following the United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of
Israel, along with the Turkish military operation in Afrin, were also
featured in the campaign.

20 Dakika - State of emergency - Netflix

On 20 July 2016, five days after an attempted coup, the government
declared a state of emergency (Turkish: Olağanüstü Hal, OHAL), allowing
ministers to rule the country by decree, bypassing parliament and
limiting certain civil freedoms. The government have frequently been
criticised for violating the constitutional limits of a state of
emergency, using it as an excuse for governing without any political
opposition. Since 2016, the state of emergency has been extended for the
sixth time, with parliament voting to extend it by a further three
months on 18 January 2018. The extension led to speculation that the
election would occur under state of emergency conditions, similar to the
controversial 2017 constitutional referendum. Heather Nauert, the
Spokesperson for the United States Department of State and acting Under
Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, issued a
statement on 20 April citing 'concern' for whether free and fair
elections would be possible under a state of emergency. On 24 April, the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) issued a
statement calling for the elections to be delayed, declaring that they
would not meet European standards or be held in a democratic manner.
Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, also issued a statement calling for the state of emergency to
end in order to guarantee credible elections. The calls to end the state
of emergency were criticised by the Turkish government and loyal members
of parliament, who called the PACE declaration 'politicised, unfair,
unjust and beyond the limits'. Prime minister Binali Yıldırım criticised
PACE for being 'non-credible' due to it having invited Democratic Union
Party (PYD) chairman Salih Muslim, who is regarded as a terrorist leader
by Turkey, to give a speech. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared
Nauert's statements about a forthcoming election 'unacceptable'.